To create these fun fabric yo-yo's first gather up your supplies. To make these you will need fabric, scissors, needle, thread, and buttons or other embellishments.

First, cut a couple of circles out of different patterns of fabric. Don't worry about your circle pieces being perfect, once you sew them you won't notice any imperfections. Depending on how big or small you want your yo-yo to be, you can tweak the measurement of the width of the circle a little bit. The wider it is the bigger the yo-yo will be.

Now take a needle and thread and make a stitch along the open edge lengthwise. Just one simple stitch is all you need to do. It doesn't even have to be perfect. Just be sure that you do not have a whole lot of length between the stitches or your stitches aren't too long and try to have them somewhat evenly spaced.

Continue stitching around the outer edge and scrunch your fabric as you go. When finished, take the needle and thread left over and pull up while pushing down the material making it gather into sort of a ruffle, scrunching it down.

Now that it is all gathered and tight, sew the ends together starting from the gathered end working up toward the edge and then back along the edge to the middle. This forms your ruffled round yo-yo. Knot it and cut the thread and voila! You have a yo-yo!

Your yo-yo is done and now all you have to do is add your embellishment to the center. Some ideas to use for your embellishment are buttons or brads.

For my finished yo-yo's I added flair from the Amy Tangerine Plus One collection. These are so cute finished and can be added to a card or scrapbook layout for a 'homemade' feel. For my project I decided to make magnets out of them to use on a magnet board in my office so I continued adding to them.

Monday, June 23, 2014

I've been so excited to share this.... a couple of months ago I was asked to guest design for Shimelle.com. I was given the assignment to create a 'graduation' themed scrapbook page, since I don't have a lot of my own graduation photos I borrowed some from a friend.

When documenting special events, I like to keep my design simple and keep the emphasis on the photos. I choose my products based on color matching the photos and like to add in hand journaling and machine stitching to give it a personal feel.

I used the April Bucket List Kit from Scrapbook Circle to complete this page. I also added some Studio Calico essentials pieces and thickers from American Crafts.

thanks for letting me share my guest design layout with you, to see the full blog post go here

I have been a subscriber for the last 3 months and I just love their kits! Their kits are right on trend and they are so organized and professional, I can't wait to work with them! To see examples of layouts that I have made with their kits go to this post. And stop by their website to pick up your own kit today!

Thursday, June 12, 2014

I hope your day is off to a great start. I have been busy working on Design team projects for American Crafts that I am not able to share yet. So, I thought that I would post a few layouts today that I did just for fun.
I recently picked up the June kitfrom Scrapbook Circle. This is such a fun kit to play with. The mix of colors and patterned paper in kit are so on trend.

Hello There Layout

I used a circle punch to cut out some circles and then I divided them in halves and used them to create a background for my layout. I added some stitching, a title and the fun embellishments included in the kit and my layout came together in a snap.

and here is a second layout that I made with the June kit this month...

Be Yourself Layout

I love mixed titles, so I thought that it would be fun to create a title from the alphas and die cuts included in the kit.

I used a Silhouette background file to cut out all the fun triangles used behind my photo. I really had a lot of fun creating this layout with all the fun embellishments included in the kit. I love that little lightbulb paper clip. It is crazy cute :)

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed my 'just for fun' layouts. Have a Crazy Cool Fun week!

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Good Morning! I hope you are all having a wonderful day today. I have a few layouts to share with you using the really fun May DEBATE TEAM Scrapbook Kitfrom The Paper Bakery. Everytime I hear the new song "Let's Take a Selfie" I think of my teenage daughter. She is permanently attached to her phone and is always taking 'selfies' on it. I had these fun new photos of her taking selfies on her phone so I decided to create my first layout about it.

Let's Take A Selfie Layout

I started off my layout by using the really cool brown woodgrain paper from American Crafts that comes included in the kit (I just love that texture). Next, I backed the vellum bow paper with some white cardstock and stitched it onto my page. Then, I trimmed the large triangles from the Pink Paislee "Rain Boots" paper and adhered it down. I fussy cut all the fun speech bubbles and added my embellishments (rub ons, tags, puffy stickers).

On my second layout I used the wonderful white woodgrain paper also included in the kit. I just love that we got two really fun textured papers in the kit this month. I added a little bit of spray mist to it and the paint picked up the texture of the woodgrain beautifully, I love the look.

Hello Darling Layout

To build my background I cut a large heart from Pink Paislee's "Rain boots" paper and then added some hand stitching around it. I framed my photo with lots of embellishments and some fussy cut hearts. I added some rub ons to create my title and voila my layout was done.

The coordinating embellishments and papers in the May Debate Team Scrapbook Kit this month make it easy to put together fast trendy layouts. Thanks for joining me today! I hope you stop by the store and pick one up today!

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